Ask HN: What would make you list your AI product on a new marketplace?
Right now the AI tool that wins is the one with the biggest marketing budget and hype, not the one that works best.We want a marketplace where sellers have to show proof, so buyers can tell the difference before they pay. We are trying to bring proof and quality to the AI market.We are building it now. It is not open yet, and before we go further we want to know what would actually make someone list on it.If you sell an AI tool: what has gone wrong for you on existing marketplaces and directories?
- ▪Right now the AI tool that wins is the one with the biggest marketing budget and hype, not the one that works best.We want a marketplace where sellers have to show proof, so buyers can tell the difference before they pay.
- ▪We are trying to bring proof and quality to the AI market.We are building it now.
- ▪It is not open yet, and before we go further we want to know what would actually make someone list on it.If you sell an AI tool: what has gone wrong for you on existing marketplaces and directories?
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 3,753 of its stories.
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
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| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185927 |
| Publication time | Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:20:11 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-05T17:25:41.785Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-05T17:25:41.785Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | MZBGb-0518nY · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Right now the AI tool that wins is the one with the biggest marketing budget and hype, not the one that works best.We want a marketplace where sellers have to show proof, so buyers can tell the difference before they pay. We are trying to bring proof and quality to the AI market.We are building it now. It is not open yet, and before we go further we want to know what would actually make someone list on it.If you sell an AI tool: what has gone wrong for you on existing marketplaces and directories? What would make you list on a new one, and what would make you walk away?While building it we made two free tools, no signup.The Achboard reads any AI product's website like a sceptical buyer would.Comparima shows a product next to its closest alternatives with what each costs.Both at achrima.com
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.